This feature can be comforting—but it is also adding to the fear-mongering around the world. People check-in safe even when never in danger.https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/874951091351408640 …
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Yep, been noticing this too. Also stuff like Brooklynites checking in "safe" after a random something miles away. https://twitter.com/deadheadtyler/status/875009107870310400 …
I agree in principle but my mom worries about me when something bad happens anywhere within a several-hundred-mile radius of me
(She doesn't have a facebook account, and even if she did, nothing short of calling and hearing my voice would be good enough.)
but americans not so good at geography
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